Combined waist-holder and skirt-supporter.



No. 698,875. Patented Apr. 29, I902.

F. W. TUCKER.

COMBINED WAIST HOLDER AND SKIRT SUPPORTER.

(Application filed May 8. 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES FFICE.

PATENT FRANK W. TUCKER, OF MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN L. BENTON, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED WAIST-HOLDER AND SKlRT-SUPPORTER.

SEECIFIGAZEION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,875, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed May 8, 1901. Serial No. 59,219. No modeli To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. TUCKER, a citizen of the United States,'and a resident of Milford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connection t, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Waist- Holder and Skirt-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in combined waist-holders and skirtsupporters, the object being to provide a device of the above character which will be very simple in construction, positive in action, and which may be very readily attached and removed.

' My invention consists in a combined waistholder and skirt-supporter comprising a flexible belt, which is fitted to be inserted between the waist and skirt and provided with a concealed metallic plate, which plate has secured thereto a plurality of double hooks so arranged that their opposite ends project through the front and back of the belt in 0pposite directions for engaging the skirt and the waist.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which-- v Figure 1 represents in perspective my improved waist-holder and skirt-supporter. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail View of the outer face of the belt, aportion of the same being broken away to show themeans for securing one of the double retaining-hooks to the plate. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the inner face of the belt, a portion of the belt being broken away to show a reversed view of one of the double hooks and the means for retaining it in position, the upper point of the hook being also broken away. Fig. 4 is a Vertical section taken in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section taken in the plane of the line B B of-Fig. 2.

The belt portion of the waist-holder and skirt-supporter is denoted by a, and it may be provided with a suitable buckle b at one end arranged to removably engage the other end of the belt for securing the belt around the waist of the wearer. A pocket 0 is formed at the back of the belt,preferably by stitching an additional strip of fabric cl around its marginal edges thereto. A metallic plate e is embedded Within the pocket 0, which plate is provided with a plurality of double hooks.

In the present instance three of these double 5 5 hooks are shown, each hook comprising a body portion f, having a point g extended upwardly from the lower end of the body portion through the outer face of the belt for engaging the skirt and another point It extending 6o downwardly from the upper end of the body portion through the inner face of the belt for engaging the waist. Each of these hooks is secured against movement to the plate e in the following manner: A tongue '1; is struck from the plate, which tongue is caused to engage the body portion f of the hook intermediate its points. A recess j is formed in one edge of the plate adjacent to the tongue 71, in

the present instance through the upper edge of the plate.

In operation the belt is fastened around the wearer between the material of the Waist and the material of the skirt, and the downwardlyextended points h of the double hooks are caused to engage the Waist, while the upwardly-extended points 9 are caused to engage the skirt, thus holding the waist and skirt together and also concealing the belt.

It will be seen that in my improvement the waist and skirt are engaged by the opposite points of the same hook, thus insuring a secure connection between the two in a single line. It will furthermore be seen that the plate is entirely protected from contact with the material either of the waist or the skirt,

thus obviating any tendency on the part of 5 the plate to wear or tear the said material.

It is evident that changes might be resorted to in the construction, form, and arrangement of the several parts Without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. mo

Hence I do not wish to limit myself strictly to the structure herein set forth; but

The double hook is prevented from 7' 5 WVhat I claim as my invention is A combined Waist-holder and skirt-supporter comprising a belt having a pocket formed therein, a plate embedded Within the pocket and provided with a plurality of double hooks, each double hook comprising a body portion having a point extended upwardly from the lower end of the body portion through the outer face of the belt for engaging the skirt and another point extended downwardly from the upper end of the body portion through the inner face of the belt for engaging the waist, one of the points of the hook being bent snugly into engagement with FRANK W. TUCKER. Witnesses: FREDK. HAYNES, HENRY THIEME. 

